On 13 October 2014, students of the MA Asian Art Histories Programme made a field trip to the Centre for Contemporary Art, Gillman Barracks, where Koh Nguang How has been invited to do his residency. Koh has the largest repository of archival materials relating to Singapore art dating to the 1950s. These materials include newspapers, exhibition catalogues, ephemera, audio recordings and photographs. Of particular significance is his documentation of the emerging contemporary art scene in Singapore in the late 1980s to the mid 1990s.

Koh also gave the students a tour of a presentation that he curated on Singaporean artist Shui Tit Sing. Shui was a painter and sculptor who practised in the 1960s and 1970s whose works were also inspired by travels to to Thailand and Cambodia in the 1960s. The presentation included original sculptures, drawings and paintings as well as materials drawn from Shui’s personal archives. In totality, they gave a good insight into the oeuvre of a very underrated artist.